Oh man, did their water company offer any kind of forgiveness on that? I had a similar scare last year when a hose bib split in the backyard and I didn't catch it until I spotted the wet spot by the fence the next morning. Luckily mine only ran for about three hours but the bill still jumped over a hundred bucks, and I nearly had a heart attack when I saw it.

I gotta push back on the "totally reframed the ending" thing. The coffee cup is a fun Easter egg, sure, but the ending works exactly the same whether you catch it or not. Jason's whole deal is that he's always been unreliable from the start, the cup just confirms what the show already tells you through his actions and dialogue. I rewatched Dark Matter once and felt like the cup was more of a "oh neat" moment than a game changer. It didn't change anything about the plot for me, it just made me feel clever for a second.

That "fixing people" part you mentioned, it's like how we throw away broken stuff instead of repairing it.

Hold up, I'm gonna be the contrarian here. City water worked fine for my starter for months until I realized it was the temperature in my kitchen that actually killed the yeast, not the chlorine. Switching to filtered water made zero difference for me because the chlorine levels in my tap water are probably way lower than yours or something. I bet your starter just happened to hit its stride at the same time you changed the water, and the timing tricked you into thinking it was the cause. Correlation ain't causation with sourdough, that stuff is finicky for no reason half the time.

Bruh that 2.4 vs 5 thing is a real game changer, same thing happened to me at a hostel in Bali.